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Hi! I'm fairly new to the board, I believe this is my first post, however I've been browsing around for a while now.

I started out with Leo4All v3 (OS X 10.5.2), patched for JMicron. Updated manually to 10.5.3 and auto-updated to 10.5.4. Running EFIv8 with vanilla kernel and dual boot with Vista 64-bit.

In 10.5.2, the driver posted in this topic for Radeon HD3850 worked brilliantly. However, since 10.5.3 it doesn't. The screen is blue with cursor, waiting for it to go on standby doesn't show me the desktop.

Now I've tried the 10.5.5 driver pack (from nvinstaller.com) but this gives me a garbled screen.

Is there a proper way to fix it yet? All I can do now is boot to safe mode and that sucks

I saw a post about changing something from Lamna to Triakis, but I have no clue what to do...

edit2: XDarwin completely breaks the GUI. On regular boot, the grey screen with Apple logo doesn't go away. With -v I see that the login screen is started, the OS doesn't crash (I get logging when I plug in a USB stick) so it's just the GUI. Safe mode (-x) doesn't work anymore either

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Hi irontony, can you explain in more detail what you did to make the 3870 work ?

I tried the installer on kalyway 10.5.2 with a gigabyte HD3870 512MB and all I get is the grey screen of death after the grey apple logo. the safe mode doesn't work anymore either. before the instalation it used to display scrambled disco screen on normal boot.

is there a solution for this ?

thanks

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Hi irontony, can you explain in more detail what you did to make the 3870 work ?

I tried the installer on kalyway 10.5.2 with a gigabyte HD3870 512MB and all I get is the grey screen of death after the grey apple logo. the safe mode doesn't work anymore either. before the instalation it used to display scrambled disco screen on normal boot.

is there a solution for this ?

thanks

Hi - I did a clean install via Boot-132 with Retail DVD (either 10.5.0 or 10.5.4) booted with "safe graphics mode" it did this by default and I installed the driver from the first page here

If I was you I would probably not include any ATI drivers during install of Kalyway. Or if you can, have a small leopard partition that does work for diagnostic purposes then have another proper leopard partition and install your proper leo install via terminal from your small partition and before booting into it apply the driver above. I honestly cant say it'll work as osx86 isnt a pure science like some people say, everything people have advised me to help me out have all failed. So at the moment I'm stuck with a GRUB Boot132 CD startup sequence and cannot get boot from HD to work. Thanks to ZOKA who recommended GRUB BOOT132 as all other Hacked Discos and Boot132 cds all failed for my setup.

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At the moment I got it working using triakis version of natit (if this is right way of describing it). None of the other natit versions or even the pkg installers did any good even thou I installed kalyway without graphic drivers in the first place as you also suggested.

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At the moment I got it working using triakis version of natit (if this is right way of describing it). None of the other natit versions or even the pkg installers did any good even thou I installed kalyway without graphic drivers in the first place as you also suggested.

Thats awesome to hear. Im really happy you got it working as I know how frustrating it is when its not workng.

May I ask which Gigabyte 3870 you have? They have some crazy serial like GV-RX387512HP or GV-RX387512H

My Sapphire is currently dead and my temporary 2400XT will not work with any kext or installer here... So I may have to get your same Gigabyte version. I could never get the temperatures while in OSX, do you know how hot your card gets?

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Thats awesome to hear. Im really happy you got it working as I know how frustrating it is when its not workng.

May I ask which Gigabyte 3870 you have? They have some crazy serial like GV-RX387512HP or GV-RX387512H

My Sapphire is currently dead and my temporary 2400XT will not work with any kext or installer here... So I may have to get your same Gigabyte version. I could never get the temperatures while in OSX, do you know how hot your card gets?

Cheers

the card model is RX387512HP as for how hot it gets I have no ideea how to measure it in osx but on windows the temp is around 38C at idle and 70C at full load.